Racism within disney

The dangers of this is that as the media is owned overall by 6 different people/companies, this means that the ideas presented through the media are limited as they do not take other peoples opinions into account. By not doing this, this therefore means that the ideas that they are portraying to the audience can be effective to members of the audience with impressionable views such as young children. Adults are also impressionable but not to the extent of children as adults tend to have grown up with the same views and feel strongly about them so their mind cannot be changed in such a way that children's minds can. We looked at the idea of Disney and we resulted in noticing that they didn't have a black princess until they released the film "the princess and the frog" in 2009. Disney went through a stage where they were criticised and accused of being racist as they have never had a black character of high class. Disney have used different races and nationalities in their films but they have never given them superiority of class during these films, for example in Dumbo (1940); during this film there is a group of men working hard whilst singing a son including the following words "We work all day, we work all night, we never learnt to read or write" they are portrayed as slaves during this film; this completely goes against the idea of equality throughout the world. Also in 1953, "The Jungle Book" was released to the public eye. This film is now analysed and seen to portray a lot of racism through its characters and locations. It included primitive and poor looking houses through the jungle; this presents the idea of no class and poor people living in the area. The character of Baloo is now seen as a character with primitive culture and also is seen to be a scatty and poor, neglected character. Some of the characters including King Louie seem to speak their own language which is hard for the audience to take seriously. Also in 1992, the film of Aladdin, was the main focus of the way people look to therefore depend on whether they should be a hero or a villain.